Please help Tiger Bands!!!

Recently, a proposal was placed on the www.donorschoose.org website for the Oakville High School bands called "Equipment Needed to Mobilize Tiger Bands!" To see the proposal, click on the title above.

For those of you not familiar with DonorsChoose.org, it is a charity organization started in 2000 by Charles Best, a former social studies teacher from Bronx, NY. He noticed that teachers often were providing basic supplies like paper and pencils for the kids, yet couldn't afford to do science projects or anything that needed special materials. He thought that people would want to help if they could choose a project to support (like the giving tree with the apples at Oakville Elementary). So, he created a website and invited his colleagues to post requests for materials they needed. His students volunteered to send 2000 letters to people around the country, explaining that $10 can make you a philanthropist. They received $30,000.

Teachers, like me, in public schools around the country submit requests for anything they need. I posted a request last summer while I was lying around after surgery, and in November I received the funding ($400 in equipment for my science olympiad team).

Once the proposal is funded, they buy the materials requested withing 1-2 days of receiving a donation, and they compile thank you letters from the class or group. In that way, ordinary folks get the choice and feedback usually reserved for millionaire philanthropists. Your $10 gets the same transparency as Bill Gates' $1 million. If you choose, your name and a quote will be posted on the proposal page showing your support of the program.
So far we have three people who have donated to the band proposal. Anyone with a small amount of money to donate can make a HUGE difference as "citizen philanthropists."

Please consider helping us out, and donate a few bucks. Every donation is tax exempt and you will immediately receive a letter you can use to take the donation off of your taxes. You can pay online with a credit or debit, or you can send a check. The info you need to send the check is on the site.

You can click on this link: Donors Choose to go right to the proposal.